Maghsoud Farasatkhah- Ph.D. (Full Professor)
- Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education
Maghsoud Farasatkhah
- Ph.D. (Full Professor)
- Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education
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Introduction
Maghsoud Farasatkhah is a full Professor of Institute for Research and Planning in Higher Education. He is a well-known sociologist and scholar in Iran. Maghsoud does research in Ethics, Metaphysics and Epistemology. His current project is 'National Survey of Student Engagement In Iran'.
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Publications (90)
The Global Knowledge Index report indicates that Iran's ranking in certain indicators, such as higher education system inputs, knowledge capital, and research output, is relatively average. However, its ranking in outputs, particularly the ultimate impact of research, is among the lowest globally. The aim of this study is to identify the factors in...
Artificial Intelligence and Teaching-learning in Higher Education: Future Scenarios for Policy Making
This study aimed to identify patterns and components of organizational culture in public schools. This research was of a phenomenological type. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 school principals from 5 districts of Tehran. After coding and data reduction, 43 items were identified in 7 components. A researcher-made questionnaire of...
The purpose of this study was to identify patterns of organizational culture in schools, focusing on its typology, which could be used as a guide for school administrators in the rapid changes. This qualitative research was a kind of analytical-case study with a library method. The surveyed community included sources, compilations and authoritative...
Organizational culture and leadership at the university is an important requirement for its effectiveness. Only in this way, can the scientific and epistemological capacity of the university be optimally supported and realized. This research was conducted by a field survey among public universities' administrators in ten regions and three administr...
Background and Objectives: School organizational culture is one of the most effective assets in promoting school goals and programs and implementing health-oriented programs is one of the important demands of the family along with the education of the students. The purpose of this study was to explain the dimensions of school-based health programs...
Background and Objectives: School organizational culture is one of the most effective assets in promoting school goals and programs and implementing health-oriented programs is one of the important demands of the family along with the education of the students. The purpose of this study was to explain the dimensions of school-based health programs...
The purpose of this research is to conceptualize the phenomenon of bullying from the perspective of the faculty members of the comprehensive universities of Tehran. This research has been carried out in the interpretivist paradigm with a qualitative approach based on the research method of the grounded theory (with the Constructivists approach of C...
Abstract
The current paper tried to explore the lived experience of Iranian students at universities in recent years after commercialization and commodification of higher education followed by limitations on the public and governmental resources of the universities. Thus, a university student is reduced to a customer position. The aim of this resea...
The History of Iran's Higher Education is studied and categorized into eight periods during the centuries.
The purpose of this research was to explore the organizational culture of public schools and their typology. This research was a qualitative exploratory study of grounded theory studies. After recording the studies (which was based on information and research results after the Islamic Revolution (1977) and conducting interviews with school administ...
Over the past several years, a lot of talks have been produced and published in Iran about the controversial and disputed position of academic ethics. Some evidence shows normative weaknesses or even anomalies in the universities. This means worrying signs of an anomic situation, at least in the range of academics and students. In this discussion,...
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to identify the growth barriers of women’s home-based businesses (HBBs) in Iran.
Design/methodology/approach
The qualitative approach was used by 22 in-depth interviews with Iranian female HBBs owners/mangers.
Findings
Business growth barriers of women were categorized in a multi-level framework of individual...
The article aims to explore the attributes of quality and quality improvement including the process and specific actions associated with these attributes – that contribute enhancing quality in Iranian Virtual Higher Education (VHE) institutions. A total of 16 interviews were conducted with experts and key actors in Iranian virtual higher education....
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the growth motivations of women owning and
managing home-based businesses (HBBs) in Iran.
Design/methodology/approach – The qualitative approach was used by 20 in-depth interviews
with Iranian female HBBs owners/mangers.
Findings – The business growth motivations of women owning and managing HBBs w...
(translated by Maghsoud Farasatkhah to Farsi)
In under-developing societies and even developed economies, home-based enterprises have been used as a device for economical growth and solving the problem of unemployment particularly for women. The role of these kinds of businesses in national and regional development causes government's attention to this subject and establishing special supporti...
http://jresearch.sanjesh.org/issue_2421_3123_Volume+5%2C+Issue+10%2C+Summer+2015%2C+Page+11-200.html
Planning in higher education in Iran has a centralized, pyramidal and vertical structure. Government's institutions have taken a self-role charge in a maximized intervention model. However, the proper and legitimate power to lead higher education is cognitive, scientific and specialization power, rather than political and hieratical power. The aim...
This editorial has the objective to do the analogy between ecosystem distributing and science developing for extracting ob- jective measurement items in order to nd out how cognitive science and technolo-
gies (CST) can build added value for developing coun- try economy.
Therefore, we are proposing natural ecosystem analogy in (CST) developing mode...
Negah-e-Nou, No. 101, Spring 2014
http://journal.irphe.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-376&slc_lang=fa&sid=1&sw
To modernize any society, particularly in developing countries, it is necessary to focus and to be concerned with educational institutions. The quality of these institutions and their anticipation to fulfill the present and future needs of the society throughout education, research and professional services are important. Hereof, faculty developmen...
A Typological Discussion based on Historical Contextualizing
Considering worlds’ highly complex and competitive conditions and metamorphosis, Iran’s universities and higher education institutions resembling intelligent, self regulated and self guided organizations have no choice but to strategically drive their planning toward futures study. Foremost, futures study is an emerging epistemological platform and...
Curriculum Planning (Journal)
The Journal of Higher Education Curriculum Studies
Quarterly Journal of Defense Strategy
Objective: The aim of the present study is to identify the factors impacting on the quality of electronic learning in E-learning Centers.
Methodology: Phenomenological qualitative research method was adopted. Samples were drawn from managers and experts from E-learning centers as well educational quality policy experts and students. 18 were select...
Interdisciplinarity is a sign of crisis in traditional approaches to the science, conventional models of planning and curriculum, and customary academic departments. The aim of this article is contextualizing of interdisciplinarization, its driving forces, capabilities, limitations, vulnerabilities and requirements; emphasizing the planning in high...
Journal of Entrepreneurship Development
Information and communication technology is increasingly important to science development because the application and development of different tools of information and communication technology help the accumulation, recombination, and innovation of knowledge capital. The findings of this research show that there are significant correlations between...
Conference and Annual General Meeting AGM
http://journal.irphe.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-277&slc_lang=fa&sid=1&sw
Barge Farhang Journal of Cultural Studies, University of Tehran No. 21 Spring-Summer Pages 86-102
Information and communication technology has played an important role in the development of the societies. The present study shows that this technology acts as an important infrastructure for the science, knowledge and education systems, because the application and development of different tools of information and communication technology helps the...
In the “knowledge society”, the quality of higher education and the scientific institutions has become a strategic element for national development as well as the territorial sovereignty. It is not possible to the states to have a good governance without the quality in knowledge production system of the state. The future view of Iranian higher educ...
http://www.magiran.com/magtoc.asp?mgID=5532&Number=5&Appendix=0&l=en
http://journal.irphe.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-221&slc_lang=fa&sid=1&sw
Higher education at Iran's state-run universities is not supported by a deeply-rooted tradition of quality assessment. For several decades, Iranian universities have not been able to monitor themselves and develop efficient, internal structures of quality assurance. The academics' attempts at internal monitoring have failed, giving way to a system...
http://journal.irphe.ir/article-1-299-en.html
This article studies the outcomes of internal evaluation (IE) implementation on the planning for the quality improvement (PQI) in the academic departments(ADs) of Iranian public universities affiliated to the ministry of science, research and technology. A random selection of the control and the test g...
Journal of Science & Technology Policy No.2, Summer
Journal of Iran Cultural Research Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies Ministry of Science, Research and Technology
Higher Education Magazine
بررسی چگونگی ارتقای کمی و کیفی دسترسی به آموزش عالی در ایران
Journal of research On Issues of Education Summer No. 34
http://journal.irphe.ir/article-1-77-en.html
Comparative analysis of quality assurance systems in higher education through out the world reveals that there are many convergence and consensus on the one hand and considerable diversity on the other hand. “Relation with the government”, “organizational structure”, “ the roles and authorities”, “ the m...
Quarterly Journal of Ethics in Science and Technology (in Persian)
